Joy

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Reading CORNER

Sep 4, 2022

Reporter Smita covers a shocking story back home Heartbreaking and often harrowing, this is a powerful story that made me feel as angry as it did sad. It transports its readers into the heart of India and shows us a country that has two faces – gene

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Reading Corner

Jan 22, 2024

While the characters might be fictional, this story is based around true-life history, which makes it even more devastating. Set in Malaysia, it covers a period of history that tends to be overlooked and follows the fortunes of a family whose lives a

TIME

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A Loaded Letter From A Long-lost Mom

Nov 19, 2018

PARTWAY THROUGH ANURADHA ROY’S All the Lives We Never Lived, the German artist Walter Spies makes the case for simply enjoying life in India amid the global upheaval of the 1930s. “We are oceans away from all that,” he says. Another character disagre

Guardian Weekly

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Books Of The Month

Feb 4, 2022

The Memory Monster by Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne Greenspan “This is where the illusion we call humankind was erased,” a guide to Holocaust sites tells the visitors on his tour. He is so steeped in its history that he has become corrupted b

Post Magazine

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Novelist's Deep Dive Into Korean Wartime Sex Slaves Story Leaves Scars

Mar 23, 2018

White Chrysanthemum, Mary Lynn Bracht's first novel, should be one of the most powerful and important books published this year - not least because it was inspired by real events. "White Chrysanthemum is about what happens to women in war," Bracht te

The Oldie

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PAUL BAILEY On This Year's Booker-shortlisted American Author Percival Everett

Nov 16, 2022

‘To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the humanness of it,’ Percival Everett once observed in a rare interview. His extraordinary novels and stories are brimming over with the everyday absurdities of life, alongside unfunny matters lik

GAY TIMES

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READING IS fundamental

Sep 3, 2019

Written early in Isherwood’s career, The Memorial sees our hero coming into adulthood at the end of WWI, torn between the hero worship of his father, who lived in service and died in war, and his father’s friend, a war survivor who threw himself into

India Today

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The Lives of Others

Jun 4, 2022

HOW DOES ONE WRITE ABOUT AN INDIAN metropolis? The classic Mumbai novel is supposed to be as unwieldy, chaotic and verbose as the city itself; art mirrors reality. In City of Incident, Annie Zaidi gives us a slim quiet counter-novel that is the very

NPR

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Emotionally Complex 'Arid Dreams' Operates On Multiple Levels

Apr 20, 2019

Duanwad Pimwana is one of Thailand's preeminent female writers, and this newly translated story collection — while not uniformly flawless — lets readers watch her grow into a true master of the form.

The Guardian

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‘I’m Not Scared Of War Any More’: Death And The Penguin Author Andrey Kurkov On Life In Kyiv

Apr 5, 2022

Even newly arrived in London, 1,300 miles away from Ukraine, Andrey Kurkov feels as if he’s in a war zone. His phone – its settings still monitoring the location west of Kyiv where he is based – buzzes constantly with warnings of air raids. Ukrainian

NPR

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He Was Imprisoned And Losing His Mind. 'Anna Karenina' Saved Him

Mar 29, 2019

A man is trapped in prison for a made-up crime. He's overwhelmed by hopelessness and anger. Until he hears a knock on the wall ... and words from another time and place.

India Today

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The Poet

Aug 25, 2018

There was a personality dichotomy in Atalji which, sometimes, even those who knew him very closely could not fathom. Was he, when interacting with them, wearing the headgear of a poet or the hat of a politician? The question may appear unnecessary or

India Today

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The Poet

Aug 25, 2018

There was a personality dichotomy in Atalji which, sometimes, even those who knew him very closely could not fathom. Was he, when interacting with them, wearing the headgear of a poet or the hat of a politician? The question may appear unnecessary or

You South Africa

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Review

Oct 16, 2020

This is a time-honoured tale of a boy’s journey into manhood. The unnamed narrator is a sensitive soul who grows up to be an artist much to the disappointment of his brutish father. He is horribly betrayed by a trusted cousin which leads him on a que

The Guardian

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I Believed Readers Only Wanted Trauma Stories From Writers Of Colour. Then I Became An Author | Zoya Patel

Mar 18, 2023

I can’t pinpoint exactly when I started imagining myself in the stories I read, but I know it was at a young age. Some of the first books I really connected with were Sweet Valley Twins, an American series about blonde, blue-eyed twin sisters who liv

The Millions

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Surrounded by Choice: The Millions Interviews Sopan Deb

Jul 15, 2022

"Writing my memoir essentially gave me the confidence that I could write fiction." The post Surrounded by Choice: The Millions Interviews Sopan Deb appeared first on The Millions.

NPR

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He Was Imprisoned And Losing His Mind. 'Anna Karenina' Saved Him

Apr 5, 2019

A man is trapped in prison for a made-up crime. He's overwhelmed by hopelessness and anger. That is until he hears a knock on the wall ... and words from another time and place.

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Survivor Secrets

Feb 12, 2023

While it has a very strong flavour of Where the Crawdads Sing, this novel is far more than a copycat of that mega bestseller. What both books have in common is that they are about young women living in the wilderness, but this one is a World War II a